Shambali Symbolism

Name(/the “logos”):

Shambali is obviously the merger of Shambala and Bali. But beyond that « Shambala » in Sanskrit (शम्भल) literally means “place of peaceful happiness”. The legend of Shambala is present in Hindu and Buddhist mysticism (Bali being Hindu it is a hint) but also in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: in all religions seated. It stems for a point of connivance, a common point, a commonplace, a link. It also refers to Sham(s) in the plural because he is abiding in us as an archetype: Shams of Tabriz (Sham ed Tabrizi) one of the greatest unconventional Sufi mystics and practitioner of his faith. The wise Sufi who taught Rumi of everything: the hidden shadow who put in light the Rumi’s radiation embodying the subtle Light and not the physical light. The famous AUR/OUR in Hebrew: the hidden light from inside.

And despite all the esoteric character, Shambali wants to be detached from religions, “purely spiritual”.
The “myth” of Shambala is that it is not a physical place, not a nation or a state but precisely a state of mind. Shambala is interior, a sort of inner harmony allowing access to external harmony.
It is an imaginary, mythical and mystical place that one does not approach with the eyes but more with the heart. It is a kind of paradise but cannot be exclusively earthly nor therefore celestial: a kind of in-between unexplainable in terms of words: it is impossible to define it in theory, it has to be experienced in practice (referring to the notion of “Samadhi”).

“Sham” in old English means “mascarade”, “comedy”, illusion referring to the notion of “Mayas” in Hinduism: our physical world stands for an illusion, the reality is not perceptible with eyes. In Islam there is a hadith (oral transmission) saying: “Choose Sham, because it is what God has chosen from His land, He will attract those whom He has chosen from His servants.”

One can see subliminally in ShAMbali, in the center “AM”, in the language of birds/green language (the mystical language) “soul” in french « âme » but also in English “I am,” implying God* and / or each host/guest in the sense “I exist” and “God/Big All exists/is through us”.

It refers to Victor Hugo who says “Consciousness is God present in man”.
This is all mystical teaching (for instance in Sufism with the Tariqa) one shifts from “I am” to “High am”… One polishes one philosopher’s stone to become transparent as the crystal (Christ dimension) and let pass the divine Light through us… once the ego (he go(es)… let it go…).

When you arrive at the airport you can see « I AM IN BALI ».

“In site media” media: pl of the medium in Latin: meaning “the way, the path” // the sight is touching in the absolute and touching the nothingness, there is no ego anymore, as a vehicle of light full of innocence (the primary sense, the true nature).

“I AM” is literally a prayer to the universe. “I AM” grateful, happy,…

When the ego represented by the “I”, disappears and rests, the “high” can awaken implying “High AM”. I am, I exist at a higher level.

The « BA », is the 2d letter of the Arabic alphabet in esoteric Muslim Sufi, draws from the quintessence of the Bismillah بَ . Because if we should summarize « ALL », بَ this dot under « B » or « BA » contains and conceals (con-seal, as a stamp, a mark) the YOUniverse: inner-outer harmony)… The famous Bismillah means “In the name of God”, because this undertaking (Shambali) is in the name of God, the Great All, Allah (ALLah), Mother Nature, the united field, the infinite source, the ocean of possibilities, no matter Its/His/Her name …

Al means “beyond” in Arabic, implies a detachment, height for a global vision.
Ali: the name of the controversial prophet for Shiites, why? Ali symbolizes the schism among a community regarding a human dogma (not the initial essence and substance) because the heritage is by the heart, the voice and not the blood… It is a deep symbol to pay attention to all messages (and messengers…) to question them and see beyond the masks…

Sham in Arabic means “the sun”. It reminds my own primary motivation since I am kid deep inside and this natural attraction, fascination for it. My orientation through exchange/business was motived by it (the sun). And as I studied in different ways, the sun is the hidden motive of most of the cults referring to the cult of Sun. Aïvanhov (the great Christian mystic) said “The universal principle is at the origin of all religions. The symbol of this universal religion is the sun. All religions come from the sun, they are ramifications of solar religion.

Shambali is also a mix in between Shanghai (for Sham) and Bali.
Shanghai is a business orientated, debauchery, partying, pollution… the peak of the western world and Bali is the offering life, pure, spiritual, full of nature…
Why such a mix? Because no need to choose one extreme maybe the way of the balance, the way of the middle (the middle path of Taoism…), the in-between the equilibrium is the wisest one… Shambali is like the symbol of the cross: the alliance in between the horizontal; materialist world/dimension, down to earth) and the vertical world/dimension: the spirituality. Shambali aspires to a balance in between both key aspects of fullness

Logo:

There is obviously 3 degrees of perceptions, 3 superposed images:
1. the flower of life
2. the Vitruvian Man
3. the planet

The flower of life is an ancestral symbol present everywhere on the planet (Europe, Middle East, Africa, America, Asia…) since millenniums beyond the exchange of the civilization. It represents the hidden grid/link of the interconnection of all elements of the world. It embodies the Ether, Akasha, The source,… It is at the origin of the evolution of everything at each level and each scale: physical (galaxies, cells…), psychological, micro/macrocosmic…

The Vitruvian Man symbolizes the double polarity of mankind:

the square representing the rationality the materialist world, the physics, and the circle stands for the intuition, the spirituality, the metaphysics.

The Vitruvian Man and the planet shows the microcosm and macrocosm linked/tied with a notion of mutual/reciprocal effect thanks to the Flower of Life which is highlighted (and high lightened) (with the notion of Light) with colors where the two other ones are in grey (like gloomy). The flower of Life beyond the schema, the link of everything in the universe: physical and metaphysical is the symbol of the movement: the evolution: growth and fractal segmentation (reconnecting all).

Thanks to Shambali people can meet themselves: to reach the inner/inward harmony to achieve afterward the outer/outward harmony. There is a vocation of butterfly effect (and hundredth monkey principle) to increase the Light of the world. That’s why in filigree we can see the little dots, the little lights of awakening. These Lights illuminate other people, they are not shining but enlighten others to find themselves, their vocation, and their own mission on this planet: the maieutic principle (to make the other meet himself).

They are random dots of Light and others corresponding to the energetic centers of the earth: the pyramids in Egypt, in Jerusalem, in Chichen Itza (in Mexico), in Machu Picchu (in Peru). These little dots hint also at the stars which illuminate the darkness of the sky.

Alif: (۱ ) it is the first letter of the alphabet, the beginning despite it is closing the name (the last letter of “Shambali”). As in Shambali we teach a way of thinking in reverse side/”right” side. Arabic is read from right to left. “Alif” in Arabic has the same root than the Hebrew letter “Aleph” and in Turkish “Elif”. It’s Hebrew sign א symbolizes the fact of letting passing the Light, let the Light through (not the light of photons but the subtle Light: prana, ether, dark energy the one connecting all together, this frequency contains all others (it is similar to the famous « om » in Sanskrit ॐ). Aleph/Alif is the source of the divine Spirit, it is also the link between the Earth and the Sky, between the material and the spiritual, between the man and God.

The “Aleph”/Alif is in mysticism a special concept. The Aleph/Alif is a point which contains the sum of all the other points that’s to say past, present and future(s), small, big, high as well as low (cf: table of Emerald in hermeticism and alchemy to know “as above so below” a quantum metaphor).

It is “concretely” a geographical and physical place where different people will feel the same but not perceiving it in the same way (according to their openness, their past (lived) as well as the present moment example: the same person in the same place with the same experience but 3 days later will probably still see it differently). Basically, when it happens to us, one is then to understand, to perceive something without being able to explain it. At the extreme, there is a Greater Aleph (or divine Aleph, in a way,) which corresponds to two persons (two incarnations who love each other) whose souls are found after a certain time (through the centuries, for example) and then reconnect: they then align all these points (Spatio-temporal coordinates, related to the position of the Earth in the galaxy at a given moment) of encounter and by extension beyond (a bit like an algorithm, or a full …). The example that one could take is that of the positive and negative pole of the same pile creating this energy (the current, the electricity) as the planets that attract and then collide creating an unprecedented exposure…

Ba: بَ « BA », is the 2d letter of the Arabic alphabet (after 1> 2: the symbol of duality) in esoteric Muslim Sufi, it is said that BA draws from the quintessence of the Bismillah بَ . Because if we should summarize « ALL », بَ this dot under « B » or « BA » contains and conceals (con-seal, as a stamp, a mark) the YOUniverse, the dot emphasizes, highlights the universe and infinity)… The famous Bismillah means “In the name of God”, because this undertaking is in the name of God, the Great All, Allah (ALLah), Mother Nature, the united field, the infinite source, the ocean of possibilities, no matter Its/His/Her name …
“Petit point” (in french, small dot, is the nickname that Elif gives me): Alif + Ba represents the duality and the union (or reunion) like the feminine and masculine Yin & Yang in Tao (the whole)

Schin/shin (at the center) (ש): This is the symbol of fire. We are born of Divine Fire. It animates the stars, the Sun and the center of the Earth; it is also present in the depths of us, and its creative power is the precious gift of Life. Shin reigns over the fire element, in its physical and more subtle manifestations. It energizes us, encourages us to act, to create harmony and life around us, in us. It reveals to us our creative power. Shin protects us from the negative energies that hold us back. This letter symbolizes the spirit and energy in motion and describes the action of a centrifugal force. This letter radiates by its branches and shows the expansion. The three branches of the Shin represent the soul. The three connected heads show the distinction of units. Shin is the symbol of emotion, the purpose of life and individuality.
This is the materialization of the divine breath on earth ש. As it is on the reverse side it is the material dimension which aspires to touch divinity and transcendence.

Ya: (ې) represents the 10th letter of the alphabet the number 10th is extremity important because this is the beginning of the endless circle (after 0,1,2,3,4…) after the 10 figure, appears the numbers with an unlimited series. And this “Ya” (ې) is also symbolized by the snake which represents infinity.

The symbol OM (ॐ): In Hinduism, “OM” is one of the most important spiritual symbols. It refers to Atman (soul, self within) and Brahman (ultimate reality, the entirety of the universe, truth, divine, supreme spirit, cosmic principles, knowledge). The syllable is often found at the beginning and the end of chapters in the Vedas. This syllable represents the original, primordial sound from which the Universe would have been structured.
We can also write OM, AUM.
• A represents the beginning, the birth, and the creator god Brahmā;
• U represents the continuation, life, and the god Vishnu;
• M represents the end, the death, and the destructive god Shiva.
In AUM or OM, the original sound we can also hear in the green language (the mystical language of birds) “home” our natural & primary household and origin.
The syllable, therefore, represents the totality of what exists, it is that “which contains the past, the present and the future, while being of another essence”, as well as the Hindu trinity.

Za: ( ظ ) is the penultimate letter of the alphabet. It represents the extension and the appearance because Shambali has a pretention of individual extension and worldwide expansion beyond the appearances for helping/teaching people to see beyond the “Mayas” (as Hindus called it) the illusions of the materialistic world.
Za has the sound of “chief”, more in the sense the leader, the guide in Arabic.

NB: the fact that Hebrew and Arabic letters embrace each other is to show the harmony among religions and the co-existence. There is beyond of the co-habitation a real complementarity. And even further beyond of the “religions of the books” (Abrahamic) there is the link with the symbol OM of the Asian philosophies (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism…) with a notion of resonance, “OM” being the primary sound representing all what exist and standing for the link, the essence in between all…

Snake: The serpent embodies the power (abilities), the will, the passage of time, the mortality. The snake also symbolizes the origin of knowledge (in Genesis especially when it offers the apple of knowledge to Adam and Eve), essentially through this illusion that time passes.
This symbol is present in ancient Egypt but also in the Mesopotamian, Chinese, Nordic, Indian cultures… It surrounds the totality of the existing world, of the material world.
In fact, the ouroboros has paradoxical side is that by biting his tail he shows that life is an endless cycle in which life feeds on itself and begins with death and ends with death and vice versa. He injects life into death and incites death to create life. In parallel, the snake symbolizes the umbilical cord, connecting all humans to Mother Earth.

The Hindu calls it Kundalini, the Japanese Ki, the Chinese Qi… This is the transcendental energy allowing to align vertically: to reconnect to our inner harmony to achieve the outer harmony.
The snake is also a hint to the reptilian dimension of the human and his origins probably from far (in space-time).
The snake in all symbolism is associated to the Dragon: the verb (in the language of bird/green language) ”to drag on” means “lasting infinitely” (to reach eternity/eternity) that’s why it surrenders the circle and the square: it is beyond the circle of time and the materiality symbolized by the square.
The dragon is the symbol of the occult knowledge referring to alchemy, the quest of the Holy Grail (by the good knights/good nights to battle peaceful the darkness for serving the Light in other dimensions and to wake up/way cup differently) and all the tribes and so-called “primitive” myths all around the planet at different periods remaining a world heritage and its “forbidden” fruit making things turning around but also turning around.

6 colors: theoretically there are 7 colors in the spectrum of light, for 7 notes of music, 7 chakras the color white on the flower of life seems, at first sight, to be missing but it is embodied by the light dots on earth: the white (symbol of the union with the Oneness) is spread over the planet subtly. This is the inner/outer quest… It is everywhere and nowhere (now here).

The circles: the double circle of the flower of life embracing the black circle of the Vitruvian Man of Da Vinci symbolizes the activation of the third strand of DNA. The triangle is the first form of Euclidean geometry and it represents, on the vibratory plane, the resolution of the eternal struggle for equilibrium in the polarity of duality. The information that will be encoded in the third strand of DNA will accomplish what will be perhaps the most important leap of consciousness: it will create the triangulation in the DNA, which will restore the fundamental master plan through which the humankind will find the inheritance galactic that was inaccessible to us so far. Remembering our stellar heritage is one of the most important aspects of our awakening. Through this process, we will be able to repair the miasmas embedded in the astral and causal bodies and to revive in you the cosmometry of enlightened consciousness.

The tail of eternity stands for a stamp and also an aureole blessing the planet with gratitude the mankind for its awakening & the ancient knowledge of sacred geometry revealing its secrets. The circle is like a wave of energy and the name “Shambali” the sound like in cymatics reminding that all is frequencies and energies before impacting matter. It is beyond the other symbols and touching only the square symbol of materiality: like the ground, the grounded outlet as Shambali is still a simple and down to earth adventure.

Images of cymatics shaping the matter/the physics:

In Shambali you will discover many symbols and myths which help you in your daily life and also to reactive your inner child to marvel at life and to relearn how to read the Great Book of Life.

Issa ~ AM